Help needed for scratched plasma screen

[Streamer]

Just received a panicky call from her indoors, seems our cat got a little adventurous and decided to climb my plasma and managed to scratch it!!

Anybody now whether this can be fixed? I haven't seen it yet but am assuming (hopefully not in vain) that it's only the protective coating rather than the glass itself - unless he's diamond coated his claws recently.....

 

[Anonymous]

Hi

Sadly i dont think there is anything you can do to fix this problem unless you change the whole protective screen and that could set you back a few hundread pounds, ive seen this happen and had to quote someone not so long ago

Regards> M

 

[Streamer]

Thanks - I'm yet to see how bad the damage is but am assured you can't see it while the screen is on. Looks like I'll have to live with it (and the cat, grrrr!) until I can convince the wife we need a bigger TV!

Merry Christmas!

 

[Anonymous]

I dont think the damage should be too bad unless your cat had other plans but i seen a scratch on the protective screen from a customer who said his daughter kind of drawn on it and the scratch was a inch long but its one of those things where when you turn the tv on, you kind of see it but thats if you are looking at that mark on the screen on purpose, other than that it should not be too much to notice. Hopefully your cat has not caused too much damage.

Regards> M

 

[ElectroMan]

I'm sure there has been at least one similar thread to this on here ...

 

[Streamer]

Well I've seen the damage now, luckily you can't see anything when it's on so it's just an aesthetic issue now. The cat lives to see another Christmas.......

Electroman, any idea whether the other thread had a resolution or point me in the right direction?

Thanks for the replies

 

[Anonymous]

Can't you have the cat's claws removed, now that it has a taste for climbing your plasma it won't stop.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

I had a simular issue some years back with a scratch on the screen of my Tosh rear projection TV but this was easy to fix as the screen simply unscrewed, with a Plaz it's a entirely differant beast and in order to replace the fron glass the whole TV needs to disasembled from the back to front as the glass is the first bit when assembleing a Plaz. This would cost almost as much as replacing the TV provideing you can still source a identical front glass for the TV and that the front glass is no a integral part of the actuall display pannel!!!

 

[ElectroMan]

Sorry, I thought there was a previous thread about this, but can't find it.

If you search for plasma screen scratch scratched on Google, you'll find a few links, including this US site which specifically mentions a cat!

Merry Christmas everybody!

 

[Anonymous]

Can you find any solace at all by killing the cat?